Search results for “[Subject: aesthetics]”

• Author(s): E. F. Carritt • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: AestheticsThis book provides an introduction into the subject of aesthetics and the problems associated with it. It emphasizes that aesthetics is not strict...

• Author(s): Benjamin Tilghman • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: AestheticsBenjamin Tilghman has been a leading commentator on analytic philosophy for many years. This book brings together his most significant and inf...

• Author(s): Jennifer A. McMahon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: NeurologyIn Aesthetics and Material Beauty, Jennifer A. McMahon develops a new aesthetic theory she terms Critical Aesthetic Realism - taking Kantian ...

• Author(s): Georgina Barton | Vicki Christopher | Susanne Garvis • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesBased on empirical evidence from authentic classroom data, this book promo...

• Author(s): Marc Furstenau • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DigitalTracing the recent changes to the technology of film editing, this book offers an account of the aesthetics of digital montage.

• Author(s): Robert Hughes • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: AestheticsArt makes its mark upon our flesh. It ravishes our eyes, invades our ears, and stirs our viscera; it commandeers our powers of attention and unset...

• Author(s): Erika Fischer-Lichte • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Performing ArtsIn this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its ...

• Author(s): Mark Leffert • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Movements - PsychoanalysisPsychoanalysis and Psychotherapy have, in one way or another, focused on the amelioration of the negative. This has only done half ...

• Author(s): Sam Han • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - Social TheoryThis volume examines the turn inwards, towards matters of the self, in an era characterised by suffering, destruction and death resulting...

• Author(s): Asli Özgen • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis book offers a rich exploration of the cinematic aesthetics that filmmakers devised to reflect the corporeal and affective experience of walk...

• Author(s): Zong Baihua • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: AestheticsThis book is a collection of insightful writings on aesthetics and Chinese and Western art by ZONG Baihua, one of the most esteemed scholars of aest...

• Author(s): Ruti Talmor • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Industries - Hospitality, Travel & TourismAesthetic Practices in African Tourism explores "Rastahood", a community, youth culture, and new tourist art for...

• Author(s): Emmie Malone | Elizabeth Scarbrough • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: AestheticsAn Introduction to Contemporary Aesthetics: Art, Community, and Experience gives students and other rea...

• Author(s): Birgit Cold • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralOriginally published in 2001, this intriguing volume brings together professionals working in architecture, planning, urban design and social policy wi...

• Author(s): Sherry C. M. Lindquist • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History - GeneralThis book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthum...

• Author(s): Christine Brinckmann • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film & VideoThe collection of essays brings together texts from two decades, documenting two of the author's ongoing areas of interest: the poeti...

• Author(s): Joshua Fineberg • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Genres & Styles - ClassicalThe famous quip I don't know much about art, but I know what I like sums up many people's ideas about how to judge a work o...

• Author(s): Brian Moeran • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Folk & Outsider ArtThis is a study of a group of potters living in a small community in the south of Japan, and about the problems they face in the produ...

• Author(s): Christie Ian • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film & VideoFilm has long been defined as a temporal art, most famously by Andr� Bazin and Andrei Tarkovsky. Yet more fundamentally it has always been a ...

• Author(s): Mark Paterson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralTouch is the first sense to develop in the womb, yet often it is overlooked. The Senses of Touch examines the role of touching and feelin...

• Author(s): Claire Raymond • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: HistoryThis book is a theoretical examination of the relationship between the face, identity, photography, and temporality, focusing on the temporal episte...

• Author(s): Benedetto Croce • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: AestheticsBenedetto Croce is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His work in aesthetics and historiography has been controv...

• Author(s): Pierre Bourdieu • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialNo judgement of taste is innocent - we are all snobs. Pierre Bo...

• Author(s): James Elkins • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History - GeneralIn this unprecedented collection, over twenty of the world's most prominent thinkers on the subject including Arthur Danto, Stephen Melville...

• Author(s): Weber Ralf • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralOriginally published in 1995, this title is a result of an interdisciplinary study in architectural theory, psychology and philosophy and the author's e...

• Author(s): Michael Stephan • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: AestheticsThis book develops a theory of picture perception and aesthetic response, arguing that images can generate in us a complex pattern of mental cha...

• Author(s): Gordon Graham • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: AestheticsPhilosophy of the Arts presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to those coming to aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the first ...

• Author(s): Frances Guerin | Magda Szczesniak • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History - 20th & 21st CenturyVisual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe investigates visual cultural projects in Europe from the 1970s...

• Author(s): Helene Cixous | Susan Sellers • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralA collection that presents a commentary on the subjects at the heart of Helene Cixous' writing. It discusses her books and her creati...

• Author(s): Penny Florence | Nicola Foster • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: AestheticsThis title was first published in 2000. This is an interdisciplinary and international collection on aesthetics with contribution...

• Author(s): Anna Lawton • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis original collection of essays encompasses seventy years of Soviet cinema from the perspective of twenty academics of different backgrounds ...

• Author(s): Damien Freeman • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: AestheticsDespite the very obvious differences between looking at Manet's Woman with a Parrot and listening to Elgar's Cello Concerto, both experiences pro...

• Author(s): Barbara L. Benish | Nathalie Blanc • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - GeneralThis book explores the impact of artistic experiments in inspiring people to turn away from current food...

• Author(s): Arnold Berleant • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: AestheticsThe essays collected in Aesthetics and Environment comprise a set of variations on art and culture guided by the theme of environment. The essay...

• Author(s): James Dowthwaite • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureAesthetic criticism has suffered a poor reputation over the last 120 years. Often dismissing it in the form of caricature, a wave o...

• Author(s): Richard Winfield • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: AestheticsFirst published in 1995, this book aims at rehabilitating systematic aesthetics. To this end, it attempts to show how metaphysical, transcenden...